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What are the best electrical gloves to use when dealing with low voltage
residential wiring. rbarch

Electrical Insulating Gloves - Give Your Employees a Hand

Injuries caused by electrical shock are one of the most severe that workers can experience on the job.
According to the National Safety Council more than 1000 employees are killed and 30,000 injured each year
from electrical shock. Many of these injuries involve the hands since they are the most common source of
contact with an electrical current. Electrical current travels through the body causing damage to internal
organs and possibly resulting in cardiac arrest. Such injuries from electrical shock can prove fatal. The best line
of protection is to use electrical insulating gloves.
It is important to know that electrical shock can result from contact with low voltage (under 600 volts) as well
as high voltage lines (over 600 volts). The effects of this exposure depends on the amount of current (which is
measured in milliamps or amps) flowing through the body, the amount of time it is in the body and the path of
the current. Exposure to 100 milliamps flowing through the body for only 2 seconds can cause death by
electrocution. This is not much current when you consider a hand-held electric drill draws 30 times that
amount. OSHA requires that workers in high and low voltage applications wear electrical insulating gloves and
that all insulating gloves be electrically tested every six months. There are several labs in the United States that
perform this required testing.
Rubber electrical insulating gloves are rated for their particular application. Workers should be trained to select
gloves for the amount of protection needed against the circuits they are working with. For example, a Class 1
glove can be used for up to 7,500 volts AC, a Class 2 up to 17,000 volts AC, etc. It is also important to
understand and recognize regulatory standards when it pertains to electrical safety awareness. These standards
are easily accessed on OSHA's website, www.osha.gov.
Finally, it is imperative that employers have in place an electrical safety program to ensure that all employees
are aware of the potential electrical hazards in their locality. Both qualified and unqualified workers should be

trained in avoiding the dangers of working on or near exposed and energized equipment

Tru dat, but I need to add properly sized, having the right size glove makes a huge difference.

Salisbury bought them out too, like Big John said, monopoly.

Yup. I get mine pretty snug. Same with leathers.

When guys first put on gloves, the complaint is that they "can't work like that". I went through the same thing when I did linework for a short spell. After a while, you're using a #8 bug with nearly the same finesse as you would bare handed. Just takes a spell to get used to.

__________________One reason not to give DIY advice:
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Since you should never be working live in residential.. Really there is no reason to besides being lazy. Occasionally I'm guilty.. I like those Atlas nitrile coated gloves for general working. Can pick up small stuff and they do a decent job of protecting your hands.

Since you should never be working live in residential.. Really there is no reason to besides being lazy. Occasionally I'm guilty.. I like those Atlas nitrile coated gloves for general working. Can pick up small stuff and they do a decent job of protecting your hands.

Welp, he hasn't mentioned working live. You need to PPE up just to verify the absence of voltage.

__________________One reason not to give DIY advice:
Catch a man a fish and you can sell it to him.
Teach a man to fish and you’ve ruined a good business opportunity.

Since you should never be working live in residential.. Really there is no reason to besides being lazy. Occasionally I'm guilty.. I like those Atlas nitrile coated gloves for general working. Can pick up small stuff and they do a decent job of protecting your hands.

I use them too tie in service drops after i do a service. In MA were allowed to tie in service drops or do our own reconnects if we feel comfortable enough to do it.

If I don't have at least a half dozen nicks or cuts on my hands, it usually means I took a week off.

My Father used to tell me that I had girlie hands back before I got into the trades and my hands got callused up. Now they feel like leather. But sometimes gloves are essential, even if it's only to keep the grease at bay.